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For me it looks like the "old" reddit design is especially affected by the outage. "new.reddit.com" works fine for me.

by wozer 4y ago

sondr3 4y ago
Can't wait for this to be one of the reasons the hard deprecated old reddit :(
- duckmysick 4y ago
  Maybe the cause and effect is reversed. We're seeing errors because the old reddit is deprecated.
- ericmay 4y ago
  It will suck when they do that, but at least I’ll get whatever time I spend on Reddit back to funnel somewhere else.
  - nickstinemates 4y ago
    As long as the API exists, so can your reddit consumption.
    - unshavedyak 4y ago
      Is there a way to use this on desktop? I’m not sure I care enough about Reddit to worry too much. Tbh I look forward to the day I can cut that time sink out. I just can’t peel myself away entirely.
      - throwaway81523 4y ago
        I just use some home cooked python scripts on desktop, but I think there is a gnus.el client somewhere too. On my phone, Red Reader is great. It's on F-droid.org.
      - nickstinemates 4y ago
        If you want to read - sure. Here's an example. https://api.reddit.com/r/programming https://api.reddit.com/r/programming
      - skyyler 4y ago
        Stellar and Comet are popular clients for MacOS. They're both pretty nice, from what I remember. Legere for Reddit has been recommended by my colleagues that use Windows but I can't vouch for it personally.
    - garduque 4y ago
      But probably not.
    - sebazzz 4y ago
      I believe they are planning API changes though, with restrictions that make alternative sane apps like Apollo not or barely functional.
- thepasswordis 4y ago
  I’m giving up Reddit for lent, and would be somewhat pleasantly surprised if they did this while I’m gone. It would make just never, ever using it again much easier.
brailsafe 4y ago
I didn't find this to be the case, took a few tries on both, but at least the old one provided an error message
agumonkey 4y ago
Tested, old yields 503, new shows the normal content. I need a tin foil hat.
- mrguyorama 4y ago
  There's very understandable reasons this could be the case, like the "old.reddit" code base just being untouched as an important API changed.
xur17 4y ago
Which is amusing because the "new" reddit has consistently been loading 10x slower than old over the past few weeks.
Someone1234 4y ago
I tried to use new.reddit because it is the only thing working, why is it that when I'm reading comments that 50% of my 1440p screen is just black background on the left & right? You can kind of fix the front page by putting it into "Compact" view, but the comment section has nothing akin to that. This is such a usability disaster relative to old.reddit, and it hasn't been fixed for years. Who is this for? I still remember when Reddit had one of the best mobile websites, before they had an official app and then mysteriously the mobile site started to lose previously working functionality.
- technion 4y ago
  I'm fairly sure this is some "design paradigm" or something. I've complained about it for years but I've never heard it described by anyone as an "issue" that's going to be fixed, as much as "a design some old people don't like".
  - 7speter 4y ago
    I think the paradigm is called “use a ton of javascript to do something really simple”
- rom-antics 4y ago
  At a strategic level, surely the website is bad in order to drive people to the mobile apps. Simple enough. But I wonder how this result was actually accomplished - are there Reddit developers deliberately adding JS bloat so scrolling is choppy? Are there KPIs that pages must not load in under N seconds or videos must not play successfully more than N% of the time? It's bad enough that it can't be an accident. I'd love to interview one of the devs of the new UI.
  - rightbyte 4y ago
    Ye ... I mean so called dark patterns are so common nowadays that it would not suprise me at all if they made the website shitty on purpuse. It is like login in to Gmail on a new computer. It has some 2fa that begs for my phone number and the other options just don't work half the time.
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For me it looks like the "old" reddit design is especially affected by the outage. "new.reddit.com" works fine for me.

by wozer 4y ago

For me it looks like the "old" reddit design is especially affected by the outage. "new.reddit.com" works fine for me.

sondr3 4y ago

Can't wait for this to be one of the reasons the hard deprecated old reddit :(

duckmysick 4y ago
Maybe the cause and effect is reversed. We're seeing errors because the old reddit is deprecated.
ericmay 4y ago
It will suck when they do that, but at least I’ll get whatever time I spend on Reddit back to funnel somewhere else.
- nickstinemates 4y ago
  As long as the API exists, so can your reddit consumption.
  - unshavedyak 4y ago
    Is there a way to use this on desktop? I’m not sure I care enough about Reddit to worry too much. Tbh I look forward to the day I can cut that time sink out. I just can’t peel myself away entirely.
    - throwaway81523 4y ago
      I just use some home cooked python scripts on desktop, but I think there is a gnus.el client somewhere too. On my phone, Red Reader is great. It's on F-droid.org.
    - nickstinemates 4y ago
      If you want to read - sure. Here's an example. https://api.reddit.com/r/programming https://api.reddit.com/r/programming
    - skyyler 4y ago
      Stellar and Comet are popular clients for MacOS. They're both pretty nice, from what I remember. Legere for Reddit has been recommended by my colleagues that use Windows but I can't vouch for it personally.
  - garduque 4y ago
    But probably not.
  - sebazzz 4y ago
    I believe they are planning API changes though, with restrictions that make alternative sane apps like Apollo not or barely functional.
thepasswordis 4y ago
I’m giving up Reddit for lent, and would be somewhat pleasantly surprised if they did this while I’m gone. It would make just never, ever using it again much easier.

brailsafe 4y ago

I didn't find this to be the case, took a few tries on both, but at least the old one provided an error message

agumonkey 4y ago

Tested, old yields 503, new shows the normal content. I need a tin foil hat.

mrguyorama 4y ago
There's very understandable reasons this could be the case, like the "old.reddit" code base just being untouched as an important API changed.

xur17 4y ago

Which is amusing because the "new" reddit has consistently been loading 10x slower than old over the past few weeks.

Someone1234 4y ago

I tried to use new.reddit because it is the only thing working, why is it that when I'm reading comments that 50% of my 1440p screen is just black background on the left & right? You can kind of fix the front page by putting it into "Compact" view, but the comment section has nothing akin to that. This is such a usability disaster relative to old.reddit, and it hasn't been fixed for years. Who is this for? I still remember when Reddit had one of the best mobile websites, before they had an official app and then mysteriously the mobile site started to lose previously working functionality.

technion 4y ago
I'm fairly sure this is some "design paradigm" or something. I've complained about it for years but I've never heard it described by anyone as an "issue" that's going to be fixed, as much as "a design some old people don't like".
- 7speter 4y ago
  I think the paradigm is called “use a ton of javascript to do something really simple”
rom-antics 4y ago
At a strategic level, surely the website is bad in order to drive people to the mobile apps. Simple enough. But I wonder how this result was actually accomplished - are there Reddit developers deliberately adding JS bloat so scrolling is choppy? Are there KPIs that pages must not load in under N seconds or videos must not play successfully more than N% of the time? It's bad enough that it can't be an accident. I'd love to interview one of the devs of the new UI.
- rightbyte 4y ago
  Ye ... I mean so called dark patterns are so common nowadays that it would not suprise me at all if they made the website shitty on purpuse. It is like login in to Gmail on a new computer. It has some 2fa that begs for my phone number and the other options just don't work half the time.

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